Right, away from this masticated mess and cider, here's a couple of beers from the newly sold-out Fourpure....
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is a Nugget. Perhaps because grapefruit isn't good for the statins I take, my enjoyment of grapefruit now comes from the contortions of hops. An American pale ale, light and certainly citric, it went down well after a mile and a half's flat bike ride.
This, however, is its IPA brother, a darker, more bitter, Nor Cal...
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Citrus with a heavier helping of hops than the Nugget, and slightly under 7% ABV, thereby requiring a slightly more muscular pint lift to the mouth, but I managed it with no signs of beer exhaustion.
After lightning, a crack of thunder, and a single drop of rainfall on my forehead, I thought I should buy some cans of Nightfall Coconut and Chocolate Imperial Stout and skedaddle off home before the rain set in.
(The rain didn't, but Littlebro IPA is hyper-hopped and comes in cans that don't open properly. At least this batch don't.)
Meanwhile (Bargain boozement corner alert) in a visit to LiDL today, I noticed that they have started stocking some new beers in cans. The only can I've tried so far is a Plunged Orange Pale Ale, and it's fun for a 99p beer. I see that the company hitherto known as Hatherwood is now branded the Hatherwood Craft Beer Co. They have another two different tins on their shelves. At 99p, come on, take it on your train journeys and reward yourself with a decent beer when the train finally arrives...!